The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-04
IN HIDING IN AUBURN PRISON.
It's Such a Safe Place that Mauer Car
not be Found, but He's There.

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not be Found, but He's There.
An Auburn IN. " telegram says: Ed
ward Mauer, who deprived the 1000 con-
victs in the prison of their extra dinner and
the concert on Thanksgiving day by going
into retirement in some secluded spot about
the prison buildings, has not yet been
found The guards, keepers and officials
who have been obliged to do extra duty
since Thanksgiving day are a very cross set
of men.
Mauer has managed to conceal himself
longer than any other stowaway in the his
tory of the Auburn prison. He is about %
wears old, and has served numerous terms
in penal institutions. A quantity of bread
was stolen from the prison storeroonr last
night, and Mauer is probably feasting
upon it to-day. Every apartment about
the prison buildings has been carefully
searched, but Mauer has not yet been dis
covered.
Mauer is an significent-looking convict
and has been in Auburn prison but eight
months. He is transfer from Sing Sing,
and the crime for which he is doing time
here is an unimportant one. 1t is related
that when in Sing Sing he gave the officials
there pleasant time hunting him up when
he succeeded once in slowing himself away.
To fellow convict in the prison here he re-
lated how he escaped from Blackwelfs
Island, where he has also done time, by
dropping cut of the squad of men with
whom he was marching, eluding the guards
and swimming ashore. He is conceded to
be about the slickeSt stowaway with which
the officials of the prison here ever had any
experience, and the question that now puz-
zles them is: Where is Mauers
1t was found he was missing Thanksgiv-
ing morning Just before the hour set for the
religious services, and as a result the con-
victs did not hear the excellent sermon
which Chaplain Searls had prepared for the
occasion, and another thing the men in
stripes did not hear that day was the con-
cert under the direction of Miss Belle
White, local musician. All these Thanks
giving treats, including an extra dinner,
were postponed until some future time. The
nights since Mauer's disappearance have
been cold with drizzly rain, and the I'M
happy guards who are obliged to patrol the
walls and keep sharp lookout for willy
Mauer have cursed both him and their hard
lot very often. Squads of men headed by
officers have secured all parts of the prison
buildings and shops and have not found the
least trace of the stowaway. His disap-
pearance takes more mysterious aspect as
the DAYS pass without his being brought to
light, and the question: Has he escaped! is
beginning to be considered by the prison
officials though they do not concede it as
possible that he could have gotten over the
walls.
One theory is that he has entered into a
scheme with some fellow-convict by which
one of them will be able to secure his free
dom. This, however, is an utter impossi-
bility, as with the extra guards dong duty
day and night no one, no matter how
crafty. could scale the walls without being
winged by bullet from a guards rife.
Elec ric lights illuminate the prison enclo-
sure. so that all parts of the walls are re-
vealed Keeper Miller has gone on nightly
excursions through the darkest and most
gloomy portions of the prison ever since
Mauer's disappearance, but has not been
rewarded by sight of the man. Every
spot hitherto utilized by factious convict
to bother his keepers has been thoroughly
overhauled, but he has evidently found
new and more secure place in which to con-
ceal his small body. The prison men are
bound to dig him out if it takes all winter,
and at the present writing it looks as though
they had a good job on hand. He viii
probaly be found concealed in some dis
used chimney if hunger doas not drive him
out